For those of you who have been anxiously awaiting Jurassic Park 4 (are there actually any of you out there?), the following news will cause a little bit of disappointment. According to Producer Frank Marshall (who works a lot with Steven Spielberg), Jurassic Park 4 has been put on the backburner for the time being.
For now, two other projects have priority over the next Jurassic Park. The Bourne Ultimatum and Indiana Jones 4 (that’s good to hear), with Bourne being at the top of the list at the moment. The good folks over at Filmforce give us this:
Jurassic Park IV] is kind of off the radar. We’ve got [The Bourne Ultimatum] here [he indicates at the top of the table he’s sitting behind], we’ve got [Indiana Jones 4] here, [indicates a little further back] and we have Jurassic back here [far back – almost at the edge of table]. Steven’s obviously been pretty busy the last year, so we haven’t focused on that yet. But we will.”
So maybe the rumors about Indy 4 being “close” are more true than we thought. Well that IS good news.
As far as Jurassic Park 4 goes… you can bet they’ll get around to doing it eventually… it’s a guaranteed $200 million boxoffice flick. But waiting a while isn’t hurt that. I’m not really sure what else they can do with the franchise though. They’ve been on the Island.. they’ve been on ANOTHER Island, they’ve been in the city… what’s next? Dinos in space?
